The site is having a few performance issues… I worked last night to try and figure out the biggest causes and it seems mostly related to disk fragmentation on one of our database servers. I am taking some steps to work on that, but it might be a little while until it is fixed. According to the disk analyzer, a 32% performance increase will result from proper defragmentation. So we will get there eventually with the Diskeeper InvisiTasking technology… I hope…

Anyone else out there running data-heavy websites? How do you deal with your fragmentation issues on the data side? If you are using mySQL, how often do you run your index defrag (Optimize)?

I never thought Disk I/O would be something that factors into the performance of high traffic sites… Learn something new every day running this place!

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